Romance, Viviane (b. 1912)

French actress . Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns (also seen as Ortmans) on July 4, 1909, in Roubaix, France.

Selected filmography:

Il est chamant (1931); Ciboulette (1933); Lilliom (1934); Les Yeux noirs (Dark Eyes, 1935); La Bandera (1935); La Belle Equipe (They Were Five, 1936); L'Ange du Foyer (1937); Mademoiselle Docteur (Street of Shadows, 1937); Naples au baiser de feu (The Kiss of Fire, 1937); Le Puritain (1938); Prison de femmes (Marked Girls, 1938); L'Etrange Monsieur Victor (1938); Le Joueur (1938); La Maison du Maltais (Sirocco, 1938); Gibraltar (It Happened in Gibraltar, 1938); L'Esclave blanche (The Pasha's Wives, 1939); La Tradition de Minuit (1939); Angelica (1940); La Vénus aveugle (1941); Une Femme dans la Nuit (1941); Cartacalha (1942); Feu Sacré (1942); Carmen (1943); La Boite aux Rêves (1945); Panique (Panic, 1946); L'Affaire du Collier de la Reine (The Queen's Necklace, 1946); La Colère des Dieux (1947); La Carrefour des Passions (1947); Maya (also prod., 1950); Passion (also prod., 1951); Au Coeur de la Casbah (1952); La Chair et le Diable (Flesh and Desire, also prod., 1953); Gueule d'Ange (Pleasures and Vices, 1955); L'affaire des poisons (1955); Pitié pour les vamps (also prod., 1956); Mélodie en sous-sol (Any Number Can Win, 1963); Nada (1973).

Winner of the Miss Paris title in 1930, French actress Viviane Romance (born Pauline Ortmanns) entered films as an extra and within a year was earning star billing. She appeared in such films as Fritz Lang's Lilliom (1934), Abel Gance's Vénus aveugle (1941), and Julien Duvivier's Panique (1946). In addition to acting, Romance produced several movies during the 1950s, including Maya (1950), Passion (1950), Le Chair et le Diable (Flesh and Desire, 1953), and Pitié pour les vamps (1956). The actress appeared in her last film, Claude Chabrol's Nada, in 1973.